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What a personal website should remember
Notes toward a place that becomes more useful with age.
The useful part of a personal website is not that it announces a finished identity. It is that the pages can keep evidence of attention: the album that stayed on repeat, the meal that finally worked, the small browser tab that opened an entire week of curiosity.
A feed asks every entry to be current. An archive lets a thought become old without making it disappear. That difference should shape the files as much as the design.
Things worth keeping
- specific details that would otherwise be forgotten
- unfinished interests, without pretending they became projects
- links back to the records, comics, games, and objects already filed elsewhere
- quiet months with only one honest sentence
The archive should not prove that every day was important. It should make ordinary days possible to find again.
A maintenance rule
Keep the entry format small enough to edit by hand. Add structure only when it helps the next note exist. The system should make writing feel lighter, not turn each passing thought into a publishing event.